A vital pathway for breathing and nourishment is also an object of desire—and one of the body’s most vulnerable parts.

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

The SE01 humanoid robot, which previously made headlines for achieving one of the most human-like gaits, has again captured global attention. Chinese robotics firm EngineAI has posted a new video ...

2001). By showing that a human-specific experience, i.e., speaking multiple languages, is reflected in the anatomy of cortical regions that seem to be evolutionarily particular to humans, we ...

Seven years and seven months ago, Google changed the world with the Transformer architecture, which lies at the heart of generative AI applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now Google has unveiled ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

By promoting the formation of new neural pathways, it mimics the human brain's reward system, making it a powerful tool for enhancing learning and boosting performance. The training process begins ...

A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in history.